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After having flagged them as I was doing them for you dear subscribers, I’ve still got my GLD and SLV puts which have some big profits on them. I just added to the hedge of those a by adding some more DBA. Here’s what the DBA profile is:
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A couple weeks ago on the day it came public, Stacey Delo asked me what I thought about buying RenRen. I told her, and I quote: “Run the other way from Renren.” I went further in my article on the matter too — “I wouldn’t touch the stock with a
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With LinkedIn.com now over $120 a share (it was priced at $45 last night and opened at $80 today!), I just checked to see if I could locate a borrow on some shares to see about shorting some for a short-term trade. Alas, I can’t get my
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So LinkedIn.com is coming public and holy cow is the mainstream media hyping the heck out of it. Every major news outlet is breathlessly explaining how the IPO was originally priced in the low $30s last week, then upped to the mid $40s earlier this week and how it
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It’s a nice rally with lots of gainers and few decliners this morning as rollover off the downhill side of the trading week. The big story of the morning is the Linked.com social network IPO. The media is hyping it much more than it needs to be and
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Nice up day for the markets and for our portfolio. Steady as she goes for now. Let’s hit today’s big movers and a note on each: Cypress — up 5% today. It’s been a steady climber for a long time now and has been in pause mode for
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I first started flagging Adtran for subscribers back when it was almost exactly half of the price it is right now. The stock has come down from $47 a couple months ago and has been trading in the very high $30s to the low $40s since. The company is scrambling
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It’s a flattish to higher open, but we’ve got our two most volatile tech names of late, Cypress and Riverbed, both up more than 3%. Recall yesterday that I wrote the following about Riverbed: Long-time subscribers know that I have been pounding the table on this one
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Here’s the story. Back in 1997, right after Steve Jobs took back over the CEO job at Apple, Michael Dell told a bunch of tech investors that if he were in charge of Apple he would, “‘d shut it down and give the money back to the shareholders.” Then
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Here’s a random email I got today about an article full of what have turned out to be some very profitable predictions and principles for investors that I wrote a few years ago. It’s remarkable how many emails I get from random people about articles I’ve written,
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I bought some more Google common this morning as I’d noted. I’m not forcing any buys, but you’ll notice I’m following the playbook that has been working so well for us — that of buying/covering on big down swings in the broader market and selling/shorting
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The markets are trying to get uglier and the bulls are retreating. Most violent on my screen this morning is Riverbed, which has been one of the most volatile stocks in the market for months now: And it’s been wildly volatile the last week too: Long-time subscribers know